PALIN AND THE PROMISE OF AMERICA’S FUTURE

Today, the seventh anniversary of the Islamofascist attack on America of September 11, 2001, we look back to commemorate the lives of our fellow Americans taken by Moslem terrorism on that horrible day.

We need also to look back in deepest gratitude for President George Bush and all those in his administration whose Herculean efforts to prevent another such attack upon us have succeeded.  It is an incredible accomplishment.

Having done so, today is also a good time to look forward, to reflect upon the vastly different futures America faces, based upon what choice her voters make 54 days from now.

I won't waste much time on the disaster that future would be for both America and the world should that choice be Barack Hussein Obama.  Government spending and taxes would explode, the Dow would fall off a cliff, every dirtbag dictator in the world from Putin to Chavez would expand their power as America became indistinguishable from Euroweenia.

I could go on adding to this list of calamities foreign and domestic, but why bother?  The bottom line is that for a lot of folks, myself included, it will be time to leave, to emigrate to Australia or Singapore or Saba until America regains its sanity, if ever.

We needn't bother, though, because this future is not going to happen.  America's future lies with Sarah Palin and not a lightweight loser who will be lucky to carry California.

So let's look at what the promise of that future might be. 

A McCain presidency will be a frustrating one, because he'll do all kind of things that will drive conservatives crazy, and be seen as a placeholder while Sarah gets the hands-on training and experience she'll need to run for the roses in 2012. 

By then, the clamor for Sarah, for McCain to graciously step aside at 78, will be too loud to ignore.

We can expect McCain to do a lot of good things as well, solid prep work for Sarah in eliminating earmarks ( and thus the livelihood of hordes of Washington lobbyists), reducing government spending and taxes, improving the economy, appointing good judges, and telling foreign thugs to not even think of ticking him off.

In an op-ed by both McCain and Palin in the Wall St. Journal (9/09), they wrote:

In the first 100 days of our administration, we will look at every agency and department and expenditure of the federal government and ask this simple question: Is it serving the needs of the taxpayer? If it is not, we will reform it or shut it down, and we will spend money only on what is truly in the interest of the American people.

A good start.  Good prep for the question I believe will be asked by a President Palin:

In the first 100 days of my administration, I will look at every agency and department and expenditure of the federal government and ask this simple question:  Is there a specific enumerated power in the Constitution authorizing its existence and expenditures?  If not, I will shut it down, and spend money only on what the Constitution authorizes the Federal government to do.

Palin has the potential to shift the debate on government power 180 degrees – just as she will do so regarding decency and behavior in our culture  We'll again have a chance to have a pro-life, pro-family, pro-personal responsibility, pro-pride in America and Western Civilization culture.

As for the gravest economic threat we face – unfunded entitlement liabilities, primarily those of Social Security and Medicare – she may provide the solution. 

Long-term, that solution must be the privatization of Social Security similar to Chile's as developed by economist José Piñera, the deregulation of the health care industry, etc.  But short-term over the next decade or two, entitlement liabilities could be funded by something Palin has already demonstrated sympathy for.

Of Alaska's 570,000 square miles, the Federal government owns 64% or 365,000 square miles.  As governor, she has made demands that much of this be returned to the state or sold privately.

The Federal government owns 37% of all the land in America, over one million square miles.  There is no Constitutional authority for the Federal government to own this land. 

The only land authorized by the Constitution (Article I, Section 8) for the Federal government to own is the Federal District (of Columbia), "not to exceed ten miles square," and land (purchased with the consent of the relevant state government) for "forts, magazines, arsenals, dock-yards, and other needful buildings."

Sarah Palin, you can bet, will sell that one million square miles and pay off  entitlement liabilities.  She'll be gracious and let the Feds keep Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, and other national treasures.  But the rest – it's up for bid.

This is just within America.  The larger picture is America's future in the world for the coming decades of the 21^st century.  Ronald Reagan was fond of saying America's best days are ahead of her, not behind her.  So it shall be with Sarah.

To see why, let's take a quick trip around the world, looking at where America's superpower status, economic and military, might be challenged.

Certainly not by Euroweenia.  Militarily it's a sad joke, it's recession city for the foreseeable future as it can't shake the drug addiction of welfare, and it's committing demographic suicide by refusing to have babies.

Certainly even more so by Russia.  Immediate short-term, Putin and his Kremlin buddies are taking it in the shorts.  The RTS, the main stock index, is down over 40%, the ruble is worth less than 4 US cents, inflation is 15% and rapidly growing, capital flight is in the scores of billions.  The Wall Street Journal explains the "perfect storm" for the Russian economy and how stock prices are in a "death spiral."

Long-term, Russia is dead.  Literally.  At the collapse of the USSR there were 160 million Russians.  Now there are 112* and the descent is accelerating.  Life expectancy has collapsed to that of Bangladesh.  By 2015 half of the Russian Army will be non-Russian and Moslem.  The economy is a one-trick pony of oil & gas and prices are collapsing.  It goes on and on.

The Russian military threat is Potemkin, a Hollywood set façade.  If Putin is stupid enough to make a move to seize the Crimea with McCain in the White House, the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol will be underwater.  Russia is history.

China is not.  But the 21^st century will not be China's, nor will it be Asia's.  As Neal Asbury explains this week, China's Environmental Metltdown is wrecking its economy. 

Further, the rising costs of doing business in China plus those of shipping stuff across the Pacific is causing a lot of US companies to relocate back to the US.  The same is true for European companies.  Volkswagen, Fiat, and German steel maker ThyssenKrupp are now building multibillion dollar manufacturing plants here in the US.

China will be forever far behind the US in total and per capita GDP (14T [trillion]/46K US vs. 4T/3K China 2008; China will never come close to catching up).

Asia as a whole is a long, long way from seizing the 21^st century.  Japan is demographically the oldest country in the world.  Japanese won't have babies, and won't let in immigrants – the word for "foreigner" or "non-Japanese" is gaijin, for which the appropriate English translation is "nigger."  Japanese are more racist than the Ku Klux Klan.

We wish the fellow democracy of India well, but as much as its economy is booming, its billion people produce ($1.2T GDP) less than the 33 million people of Canada ($1.5T GDP).  Any thought of India catching up to the US in economic or military power is ridiculous.  India's best bet is to be a good and staunch ally of the US, mutually cooperating to mutual benefit.

Brazil can be the same.  Brazil's "tomorrow" – as in "Brazil is the country of tomorrow and always will be" – may finally be arriving.  190 million people, $1.6T GDP, 8K per capita.  Lots of oil, lots of resources, lots of human capital with surging young energy.  Reaching out to Brazil should be a win-win. 

Nonetheless, just with this quickie world tour, you can see that no country is in a position to rival the US in the foreseeable future – providing, of course, that the American voters choose the path of Palin Promise and not Obambi Suicide.

And it is of course just a promise.  We have no guarantee that Sarah Palin will live up to it.  Yet we have enough to go on with the minimal we know about her right now to say there is a real actual promise, a real actual possibility with her for an American future of freedom and prosperity, of an America of which we can be proud.

It's up to us and our children to see that possibility becomes realized. 

This is what our focus should be upon this September 11.  The best way to honor the loss of our fellow Americans seven years ago is to create an America that triumphs.

Which includes a triumph over Islamofascism.  This comes at the end here, almost as an afterthought, because in a very real way, it is hard to take seriously a bunch of crazies whose only education is memorizing phrases from the Koran, who spend their lives chanting Allahuakbar, and think they can force the civilized world into going back to the 7^th century by blowing themselves up.

The only way to deal with such proto-hominids is kill them if they threaten us, ignore them if they don't, and if they bother us with stupid demands for sharia law, ship them back to countries that have the sharia they want.  It's ridiculous to treat them any other way.  We don't have to take any crap from them whatsoever.

It's only when we do that they have any power.

In short, what we need to fulfill America's promise is leaders who are proud to be Americans without appeasement, without apology.  Let us pray that John McCain and Sarah Palin will be those leaders, and that we all will help fulfill that promise.

*Note:  The CIA World Factbook lists the current population of Russia at 140 million, 80% of whom are ethnic Russian, or 112 million.